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BookCheck: Find Out More About That Book (J2ME)

What?		Ever been at the book store looking for a book you had read about online? You're there and it turns out they don't have the book in stock. You see a couple other books on the same subject, and you wonder if they're any good (since you came all the way out here, you had better leave with something!). How can you find out? BookCheck is the answer. BookCheck is a J2ME MIDlet client for Amazon's Web Services. Using BookCheck you can look up a book by it's ISBN number and see what Amazon has to say. See who wrote it, see how much Amazon is selling it for, see if it is available, see how its reviews are, even see a sampling of the reviews. Note: The application makes use of a data connection to communicate with Amazon. Data surcharges may apply, please check with your carrier. This program was born out of personal need, and a desire to write a MIDlet that used network connectivity and exercised my XML classes. How to backspace? In some cases, the left arrow or the "clear" button will work (at least they did on the emulators). In the worst case scenario, you can use the pound/hash/# button to backspace.
The Goods		License: MIT License (from opensource.org) MIDP Java Application Descriptor: BookCheck.jad MIDlet JAR file: BookCheck.jar Download the source.
Facts		Platforms: Java 2 Micro Edition, MIDP 1.0 Language: Java Tools: Java 2 SDK, Java2 Micro Edition Wireless Toolkit, NetBeans Current Version: 1.0.1 Status: retired